Article Indexes / Databases
Due to the interdisciplinary nature of educational foundations research, the list below is selective. To fully explore all 300+ databases, go to Indexes/Databases
ERIC
(Educational Resources Information
Center) 1966- Includes full-text)
ERIC is the world's largest source of information for education research and
practice. It contains abstracts and some full-text of journal articles,
documents (ED's), books and papers. The U.S.
Department of Education produces this database.
Education Abstracts 1983
- (Includes full-text)
This database indexes 423 core international periodicals,
monographs, and yearbooks in education. Topics include a wide range of contemporary
education issues, including government funding, instructional media, multicultural
education, religious education, student counseling, competency-based, and
information technology
Indexes 1,500 journals, of which 750 are available in full-text. One-hundred (100) books/monographs and numerous education-related conference papers are also available full-text
Professional
Development Collection (Includes full-text)
Designed for professional educators, this database
provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 600 full text journals,
including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. Professional Development
Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full-text education
journals in the world.
Academic
Search Premier 1984- (Includes full-text)
Contains full text for nearly 3,180 scholarly publications and includes full-page
images. Educational Foundation students will find the full text journal coverage
in the fields of social sciences, humanities, education and ethnic studies
helpful. Other disciplines are also covered.
Expanded
Academic ASAP (Includes full-text)
Access to articles from over 500 full-text journals in all disciplines
Anthropological Literature 1800-
This database is a bibliographic index to articles and essays on
anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics,
psychology, and religious studies. Updated quarterly, Anthropological Literature
indexes articles two or more pages long in works published in English and
other European languages from the 19 th century to the present.
Human Relations Area Files
(eHRAF) (Includes full-text)
The eHRAF Collection of Ethnography, produced at Yale University, is a cross-cultural
database containing over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural
and social life. The information is organized into cultures and ethnic groups.
These full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level
Psychology
and Behavioral Sciences Collection (Includes full-text)
This database provides coverage of more than 550
full text journals, including more than 500 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology
& Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional
and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes,
anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Updated daily.
PsycINFO 1967- (Includes
full-text)
PsycINFO provides abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the
behavioral sciences and mental health. The databases includes material of
relevance to psychologists and professionals in psychology and related fields
such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience,
law, medicine, and social work. The following materials formats are found
in this database: 1800 international journal titles written in 24 languages,
chapter and book coverage, dissertations and technical reports.
Ethnic
NewsWatch 1985- (Includes full-text)
Full text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic
and minority press in America. Designed to provide the "other
side of the story", Ethnic NewsWatch full text titles offer
additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.
Family
& Society Studies Worldwide Database (Includes full-text)
This database includes nearly 600,000 records with an international scope.
A wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, sociology,
psychology, demography, health sciences, education, economics, law, history,
and social work are represented. This database contains materials from professional
journals, books, popular literature, conference papers, internet documents,
government reports, videos, pamphlets and unpublished material such as poster
sessions and statistical documents. Records may be directly exported into
ProCite, EndNote or Reference Manager.
GenderWatch
1970- (Includes full-text)
This database contains unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender
impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. GenderWatch is a repository
of an important historical perspective on the evolution of both the women's
movement and major changes in gender roles.It contains a full-text collection
of journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets
and pamphlets, conference proceedings and special reports devoted to women's
and gender issues.
Social
Issues Researcher (SIRS) (Includes full-text)
SIRS provides integrated access to thousands of full-text articles, documents
and graphics concerning social issues, health, science and business
OmniFile
Full Text Mega (Social Science focus) (Includes full-text)
To access: click on "OmniFile Full Text Mega"
This database is multi-disciplinary and is of partial interest to the
education foundations researcher. Topics include social
sciences, education, general science, humanities, business and several other
disciplines.
SocINDEX (Includes full-text)
SocINDEX is a comprehensive sociology database featuring citations with subject headings from a sociology specific thesaurus. It contains informative abstracts for more than 590 "core" journals dating back to 1985. SocINDEX provides data mined from more than 500 "priority" coverage journals and 1040 "selective" coverage journals, and it provides extensive indexing for monographs, conference papers, and other sources. The database offers coverage from all subdisciplines of sociology
Sociological
Collection (Includes full-text)
This database covers all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human
tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and
social structure.Full text is provided for more than 620 important journals,
including more than 580 peer-reviewed titles.
HaPI
- Health and Psychosocial Instruments
This database provides ready access to information on measurement instruments
in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior and library
and information science.The following materials are included: questionnaires,
interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals,
rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios and tests. HAPI
assists researchers, practitioners, educators, administrators, and evaluators
to identify measures needed for research studies, grant proposals, client/patient
assessment, class papers/projects, theses/dissertations, and program evaluation.
Mental
Measurements Yearbooks
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the
Buros Institute, contains full-text information about and reviews of all English-language
standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude,
psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements
Yearbooks. This database contains data from Yearbooks 9 through 15.
Dissertation Abstracts
(Digital Dissertations) 1861-
This database contains more than 1.6 million
entries for doctoral dissertations and master's theses from over 1,000 North
American graduate schools and European universities. Since 1997, new publications
have been available electronically, and many publications can be ordered through
Interlibrary loan or through
the system for a fee.
Index to Theses
-produced by British and Irish Universities 1716-
A comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted
for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland.